Published Research
Peer-reviewed analyses and working papers mapping the cognitive mechanisms, behavioural scripts, and legal architectures that drive global financial networks, portfolio construction, and the future of financial identity.
Breaking the Unholy Marriage Between Masculinity and Money
Why Male Billionaires May Need Financial Therapy the Most
Explores the psychopathology of billionaire financial behaviour and why extreme wealth accumulation may signal unresolved emotional patterns — making financial therapy most critical at the apex of power.
Designing a New Financial Self in the Age of AI
Explores how AI is reshaping the psychological foundations of financial identity — and what it means to consciously design a new financial self in conscious partnership with intelligent systems.
Retirement Planning as We Know it is a Lonely Pursuit of Capital, it Shouldn’t Be So
A call to reimagine retirement planning as a relational and communal pursuit rather than a solitary capital-accumulation race — centred on wellbeing and human connection, not portfolio size alone.
In Building Optimal Portfolios, Do Not Ignore Investors’ Emotions
Challenges purely quantitative portfolio construction by proving the mathematical impact of unmanaged investor emotion — incorporating anxiety-adjusted returns, goals-based investing, and prospect theory.
Robo-Advisors: Exploring and Leveraging the Competition
An in-depth exploration of algorithmic wealth management platforms, assessing competitive advantages and the cognitive shifts required by modern financial advisors navigating the FinTech landscape.
Legal Theory of Finance: Evidence from Global Financial Networks
Sarpong & Deodutt — DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2019.1593071
Analyses the intersection of law and global financial networks to understand how legal frameworks dictate market stability and structural behaviour — published open-access in Cogent Economics & Finance, 7:1.
Empirical Rigour
CFPS publications undergo stringent peer review before they are translated into industry practice. Working papers are made freely available to advance practitioner literacy in financial psychology.
Research Themes
Lead Author
Prof Prince Kwasi Sarpong
PhD, CFP®
Centre for Financial Psychology and Systems — Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice.
Financial Therapy for Men
Antifragile Financial Therapy — a dedicated space exploring the psychology of money, masculinity, and resilience. Writing, tools, and therapy built for how men actually relate to money.